Synopses & Reviews
"Stephen Vincent Benâet bibliography": p. 235-240.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Synopsis
When Stephen Vincent Bent died in 1943 at the age of 44, all of America mourned the loss. Bent was one of the countrys most well known poets of the first half of the twentieth century and as a fiction writer, he had an even larger audience. This book is a collection of essays celebrating Bent and his writing. The first group of essays contains pieces about Bents life, times, and personal relationships. Thomas Carr Bent reminisces about his father in the first essay, and others consider Bents marriage to his wife Rosemary; Archibald MacLeish, Thornton Wilder and Bent as friends, liberal humanists and public activists; and his friendships with Philip Barry, Jed Harris, and Thornton Wilder. The second group contains essays about Bents poetry, fiction, and drama. They discuss Bents role in the development of historical poetry in America, John Browns Body and the Civil War, Hawthorne, Bent and historical fiction, Bents Faustian America, the adaptation of "The Devil and Daniel Webster" to drama and then to film, Bents use of fantasy and science fiction, and Bent as a dramatist for stage, screen and radio.
Table of Contents
Son remembers /Thomas Carr Benâet --Stephen and Rosemary: a love story /Patricia McAndrew --Yale Club of Stephen Vincent Benâet, Archibald MacLeish, and Thornton Wilder: the writer as liberal humanist and public activist /David Garrett Izzo --Charmed circle of Stephen Vincent Benâet: Philip Barry, Jed Harris, Thornton Wilder /Laura Shea --123 College Street: Stephen Vincent Benâet and the development of an historical poetry for America /Jared Lobdell --John Brown's body and the meaning of the Civil War /Gary Grieve-Carlson --American history in the short stories of Stephen Vincent Benâet and Nathaniel Hawthorne /Nancy Bunge --Waking from nightmares: Stephen Vincent Benâet's Faustian America /Robert Combs --American reincarnations: "The devil and Daniel Webster" from fiction to drama to film /Lincoln Konkle --Stephen Vincent Benâet in the twilight zone: fantasy and science fiction /Toby Johnson --Benâet as dramatist for stage, screen, and radio /David Garrett Izzo andLincoln Konkle